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  • 23 Mar 2013
    Sharp rise in number of homeless families

    Government figures released yesterday (22 March) show a sharp increase in the number of homeless families over the past year.

  • 25 Feb 2013
    Channel 4 Dispatches: benefit cuts and disabled people

    Channel 4 television's respected 'Dispatches' series will carry a programme on Disability Living Allowance at 8pm tonight (Monday 25 February). It is entitled, perhaps rather sweepingly and unhelpfully, 'Britain on Benefits'. Nonetheless, it will be important viewing.

  • 4 Feb 2013
    New website shows 'personal impact of Osborne’s war on welfare'

    Housing Justice has launched a new campaign website where people facing welfare cuts tell their stories of hardship and coping with the changes.

  • 27 Jan 2013
    Welfare cuts will increase poverty, says Oxfam Scotland

    Oxfam Scotland has backed a report by Dr Jim McCormick and SCVO on the impact of social security cuts, saying they will increase poverty.

  • 14 Jan 2013
    How disabled people will lose Motability vehicles under new government rules

    In January last year (2012) I predicted that thousands of disabled people would lose their Motability vehicles under the Government’s draft criteria for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), set to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) under the Welfare Reform Act. When the Government published the final version of the criteria recently, it turned out that the reality is far, far worse than we could have imagined. That is one of the harsh realities of the We Are Spartacus 'Emergency - Stop' report and campaign launched today.

  • 10 Jan 2013
    Cutting benefits to sickest may backfire

    The UK government’s Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill will hit even seriously ill people and their families, specialists have pointed out. The controversial measure involves limiting increases in most working-age benefits to one per cent a year for three years from 2013-14 – a drop in real terms, since the cost of living is rising considerably faster.

  • 9 Jan 2013
    Untrue that benefits cap protects disabled people, critics point out

    Government claims that disabled people have been protected in the government's Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill are untrue, say critics of the measure.

  • 8 Jan 2013
    Demonisation of claimants is a 'stain on our society', government told

    Ministers' attempts to turn neighbour against neighbour in a bid to drive through the one per cent benefits cap are a "stain on our society", says PCS.

  • 8 Jan 2013
    Missing exercise benefit cut might hit healthy too

    A proposal to cut benefits for obese and unhealthy people who fail to attend exercise sessions has hit the headlines. People of ordinary weight and in good health could lose money too.

  • 7 Jan 2013
    Benefits rise cap is plain wrong, say charities

    The chief executives of 23 major British charities say the government must make sure increases in benefit rates at least reflect rises in the cost of living.